From the Department of Walk Backs, Gingrich and mandates

As we noted in First Thoughts, Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press acknowledged his past support for an individual health-insurance mandate:

“I agree that all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. And I think that there are ways to do it that make most libertarians relatively happy. I've said consistently, where there's some requirement you either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way you indicate you're going to be held accountable.”

"I am completely opposed to the Obamacare mandate on individuals.I fought it for two and half years at the Center for Health Transformation.You can see all the things we did to stop it at HealthTransformation.net.I am for the repeal of Obamacare and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional."